The Shop Around the Corner: movie monologues to shadow
12 monologues from The Shop Around the Corner. Original audio, one line at a time, with a pause to say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- B24 lines
You know where I was last night while you were home soaking your feet in hot water?
Pepi's errand complaintThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He stacks the chores until the grievance turns comic. - B29 lines
Now, look here, Vadas. Now, just a minute.
The pâté defenseThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He litigates a dinner joke word by word, like a tiny office trial. - B24 lines
My heart was trembling as I walked into the post office "and there you were, lying in box 237.
The letter in box 237The Shop Around the Corner · 1940She walks into the post office as if toward a person; the envelope in the box is already a meeting. - B119 lines
I know just what you mean, madam.
The candy-control pitchThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He agrees with her, inflates the pounds, then sells the tinkle as a message. - B18 lines
To whom it may concern..
Matuschek reads the letterThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940The stock phrases pile up until praise itself sounds like an eviction notice. - B14 lines
Twenty-two years we've been married.
The betrayed husband's confessionThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He counts the years of the marriage, then admits she would not grow old with him. - B24 lines
Well, I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik because I know exactly what I'd find.
Novak's three-layer cutThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940Heart, soul, then brains. She turns his depth talk into a map of what she already despises. - B215 lines
Matuschek and Company, good morning.
Pepi's joke on the switchboardThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He answers the shop like a clerk, then piles the gag until the whole floor is in on it. - B28 lines
You see, I thought of giving it, uh to my wife's uncle for Christmas.
Pirovitch's mean little ledgerThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He stacks thrift, dislike, and revenge until the gift sounds like a just war. - B28 lines
Oh, I'm not here, I'm supposed to be a pretty sick man that's what my doctor tells me.
The hospital complaintThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940He turns two weeks without customers into a joke about the other shop, lonely and proud in the same breath. - B212 lines
And I, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.
The Christmas thanksThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940Doctors, nurses, home: he promotes the staff before he pays them, and the stammer makes it land. - B131 lines
Well, when I first came to work here something very strange happened to me.
The late confessionThe Shop Around the Corner · 1940Memory, mockery, and a shop joke walk her all the way to I fell for you.